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Updated June 2nd, 2016: We have added Keeper and Sticky Password! Please look below for the added Password Managers review and also take a look at our updated comparison table. LastPass vs KeePass vs...

Learn the differences between FTPS, SFTP, and FTP over SSH. Discover which secure file transfer protocol suits your needs and how to implement them for enhanced data protection.

Hello RDMers, We all love the Devolutions Online Database data source, which is our managed hosted repository that allows you to access your data through a simple web connection. However, there have b...

Hey RDMers, We regularly feature frequently Asked Questions here in our blog. Today, we’re focusing on a question that we get from users who decided in the past not to renew their RDM license. Since a...

Hi RDMers, As you may know, Devolutions has customers on 6 continents (we’re still waiting for our first customer in Antarctica, but penguins don’t seem to want to tame the IT chaos in their icy world...

LastPass vs KeePass vs 1Password vs Dashlane vs Passwordstate There are a lot of options out there for password manager software, but finding the one that will fulfill your needs can sometimes feel ov...

Hello RDMers, You know how I might think that the Mona Lisa is the greatest painting ever created but someone else might totally disagree and say that for the Starry Night is the greatest painting the...

Hello RDMers, Devolutions is truly community driven, we strive to implement as many of your requests as we can, and this makes most of you quite happy. Over the past month or two, we've received mor...

Hello RDMers, We all know how sometimes in life we wish some tasks would be automated so we wouldn’t have the impression of living the same day over and over again. I mean how great would it be for yo...

It’s always nice to receive a little gift once in a while, well we have one for you…the Key Agent Manager (ok, ok were sorry, it’s not a Lightsaber but it’s still pretty exciting!!) and it will make y...

by Eugene Kalayev, VP Product Management, ControlUp Back in 2012, I wrote a whitepaper comparing different remote desktop connection software products that were available at the time. Among the variou...

Hello RDMers, Ever been in a situation where you had a bug with RDM and tried to explain it by email to one of our Support expert and just couldn’t exactly find the proper way to describe the problem,...

Hello RDMers, It’s been a long time coming for this recent feature. We have had requests pouring in for months asking us for an option that will allow you to change an entry type with a click of a but...

Hello RDMers, Have you ever lost your cellphone? That complete state of panic when you realize that you have lost all your numbers, all your pictures, all those souvenirs that were stored in your cell...

Hello RDMers, Were often asked what is the fastest way to redistribute data sources or registration information among your organization or different IT environments, so we thought we would give you a ...

Hear ye! Hear ye! The Most Annoying Bug in RDM’s history has been fixed! Have you ever run in that reaaaaaally annoying bug in RDM, the one where you would right-click on a folder in your Navigation ...

Hey RDMers! Earlier this week, renowned Norway-based IT expert Trond Eirik Haavarstein (a.k.a. Eric) posted a great new blog on Xenappblog.com that outlines how to automatically start and stop Amazon ...

Hello RDMers, How about we have a little talk about cleaning up? Oh I know how much we all hate those two words, we try to run and hide hoping someone else will do those chores, but sometime it's easi...

Hello RDMers, By now you all know about our 2-Factor Authentication with Yubikey and Google Authenticator, well it is with great pleasure that we can now officially announce the new addition to our 2-...

Hello RDMers, So its that time of the year where you had to renew your lease for your apartment, you had to renew your parking permit for your car, you had to renew your mortgage for your house, and y...

Hello RDMers, Last week, we took a quick look at advanced session management with Dynamic variables to help and simplify your life a little. Since it’s summer and we are all in a great relaxation mood...

Hello RDMers, If you’ve been working in a team environment, well we all know how much handling the credentials for everyone can cause you a headache! Here is a little something that may simplify your ...

Hello RDMers, So let say that you are the administrator of an enterprise that manages multiple users and you would like to restrict some of the actions allowed to them, like creating a new data sourc...

Hello RDMers, In our modern world, everything needs to go fast: cars, cellphones and of course computers. What a waste of time when you have to wait a couple of minutes just for 2 toasts for breakfast...

Hello RDMers, In the recent overhaul of our Cloud services, we introduced Devolutions Online Drive, much like Dropbox or Amazon S3, this is an online file storage service, but dedicated to a single f...

Hello RDMers, For those of you that prefer to run Remote Desktop Manager in the portable mode, it may happen that, after unzipping the files in your folder of choice and attempting to launch the prog...

The title says it all... The best practices in our industry dictate that when an employee leaves, you must change ALL of the password that he had been made aware of as part of his work. This is true...

Hello RDMers, Some of you like using custom images for the various entry types that we support. The solution that we had in our previous versions was to use Custom Images. These came with a disadva...

Hello RDMers, The renaming of our previous Standard edition to the Free edition was more than a simple name change. When we were a startup, a feature limited product that got our full featured produc...

Hello RDMers, Many enterprise applications use a Web architecture for various reasons, but mostly in order to be platform independent. A situation that we encounter frequently is that there is a sing...

Hello RDMers, We often say this, but maybe you haven't seen it yet, so I'll say it once more... Our products are really, and I mean really, driven by user requests. This is not to say that we implem...

Hello RDMers, We receive requests in relation to supporting VMware clients and libraries quite often. Honestly I do not know about you but the products changing names, technologies being deprecated t...

Hello RDMers, You may have noticed that we’ve recently added many built-in tools in Remote Desktop Manager. Tools like Event Viewer, Computer Management, etc. You can even add to them by using ourMa...

Hello RDMers, We've recently reworked our browser extensions and have improved them significantly. These extensions now have the same feature set: ,Internet Explorer Browser Extension ,Mozilla Fire...

Hello RDMers, A few users of our community have been experiencing application hangs when logging off RDP embedded sessions. We have identified two causes and we wanted to publish this in order to he...

Hi RDMers, Our version 10 makes use of a new feature of the RDP protocol that allows for much faster re-connections of active sessions. This means that resizing an embedded sessions will cause a "Co...

Hey everyone, For those of you who have tons of sessions to manage, you know that it usually results in a lot of credentials to manage as well. If you are allowed to reuse credentials for multiple dev...

Learn how to optimize memory consumption for RDP sessions in Remote Desktop Manager. Follow our guide to configure settings and reduce memory usage, ensuring efficient and stable remote connections.

Hello everyone, Many of you have discovered our Macros/Scripts/Tools and are probably writing scripts once and reusing them against multiple hosts when using Remote Desktop Manager. By default, the ...

Hi all, Here at Devolutions, we frequently get questions on the folder system of Remote Desktop Manager. Well, if you also had an interrogation on that subject, you may well find the answer below! If ...

Hey guys, Today we'd like to highlight the importance of including your REAL email address when sending out an error report. Why? Many times we already have the solution or at least a workaround for y...

Hey guys, Did you know that in june there was International Green IT Awareness Week? It’s an annual event designed to educate individuals, corporations and governments about their technology-related e...

Do you ever need to run a PowerShell script on multiple machines? Say an upgrade script? RDM Agent is the tool for the job. First open an RDP connection to all the machines you want to execute the scr...

Beta build v9.4.5.0 has brought some minor changes on how you configure Jump, this article has been modified accordingly. For those of you who registered for the RDM Jump Beta, you should receive your...

Hello RDMers! As you know, our development team is working hard to release new features or to fix bugs in Remote Desktop Manager. This results in new versions being released frequently. Some of you ...

Hello All, It is now possible to add a Macro/Script/Tool entry type as a sub connection to a existing session. Sub connections are used to share properties between groups of sessions. The Macro/Script...

Hi Everyone, When using the same VPN from multiple sessions that are active, you can prevent it being closed when terminating a session, even if you had set the close action. This feature is called VP...

Hi Everyone, Did you heard about Remote Desktop Manager’s Private Vault ? The Private Vault is a user centric repository for entries of any type. It allows you to create entries that only you can ac...

Hi everyone, Did you know that in Remote Desktop Manager, there is a feature that allows you to restore deleted entries? When an entry is deleted, Remote Desktop Manager in fact performs what is cal...

Learn how to use View Only mode in RDP sessions with Remote Desktop Manager. Follow our guide to configure this feature, allowing you to monitor remote machines securely.